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OFFICIAL PROQRAMMB AND QUIDB BOOK 



Reunion^ Georgia Division, U. C. V. 




5AVANNAH, GEORGIA. 



NOVEMBER 22, 23, 24, 1899. 



PRINTING, 
LITHOGRAPHING a 

BLANK BOOKS, ^tf 

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Carries the LAROEx^T and best selected 5TOCK of papen 
the South, and can handle any work in Commercial, Railrc 
Pamphlet, Book and General Printing and Binding with dispai 
and at the lowest figures. Large Blank Books a specialty. 
estimates from us and save money. 

®ije ptjarning |tem0, 

J. H. ESTILL, Pres't 

nORNING NEWS BUILDING, 5 & 7 WHITAKER ST. 



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Coming to the one mammoth, resolute, generous store 
that has solved the problem of doubling an already 
great business The store that gives buyers so much 
for their money that they carry the news to their friends 
and neighbors, just because they can't help it 

Four Specials $7.50, $10, $12, $1. 

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DESIGNS IN FURlTITCJREaiid CARPETS. 



Despite the continued advance in price of 
all classes of merchandise, we are to-day 
^^ 1 duplicating prices of a year ago. 

Furniture in Golden Oak, Mahogany and 
Walnut. Velvet, Axminster and Brussels 
^Vj^ Carpets. Window Shades, Lace 

Curtains, Etc. 

Buck's Cklebrated Stoves. 
the odorless refrigerator. 

We furnish the Parlor, Dining Room, Bed Chamber 
or Kitchen .at marvellously Low Prices. 

Special prices for the CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 

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For Members of the 

The proprietors cordially invite 
Veterans and their friends to 
stop at the DE 50T0, and offer 
Special Low Rates during Reun- 
ion Week. 

WRITE AT ONCE AND HAVE YOUR ROOMS RESERVED. 

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In addition to our large stock of Drugs, Medi- 
cines and Chemicals, we have just opened 
a fine assortment of 






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FOREIGN and DOMESTIC. 


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A full line of Surgical Instruments, Trusses. 






Supporters, Bandages. Etc. 




Wholesale and Retail, 




Retail. 
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Palmer Hardware eompany 

AGENTS KOR 

Fairbanks' Standard Scales, 
Dynamite and Gun Powder, 
Mowing Machines, 
Plows, Harrows. 



SAM'L B. PALMER. Prefident 
H. A. PALMER, Vice-President 
H. W. PALMER. Treasurer. 
A. B. PALMER. Secretary. 




RAILROAD and MILL SUPPLIES, RUBBER BELTING and PACKING, 
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, RIFLES, AnnUNMTON, 
ROPE, IINWARE, STOVES, CROCKERY, 
FISHING TACKLE, Etc. 



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NEW YORK OFFICE. 127 OUANE ST. 



Nos. 9-II-I3 NORTH JEFFERSON ST., 

SAVANNAH, GA. 







..Special.. 



HI .Attention, i 




^ /\ /ILL be shown all visitors calling at our 
V JI store, and we cordially invite you to 
call on us and inspect the LARGEST, most Ar- 
tistic and best assorted stock of 



RURNITURE 



in the City. We are the only exclusive Furni- 
ture dealers here ; consequently we buy larger 
and sell more than others ; and the result is that 
we can afford to sell CHEAPER. 

The BEST goods for the LEAST money is what we 
can give you. Call on us. 

W.E. WIMPY, 

THE WRECKER OF HIGH PRICES. 



No. 26 

EHQMION 

West. 



Lvons' 



Block. 



McMillan brothers. 

.^jd riANUFACTURERS OF \^^ 



ill-SlHWilS, 



and General Copper Work. 




Sheets and Bolt Copper, Patching, 
Copper and Rivets for sale, 

HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR OLD COPPER OF ANY NATURE 

Savannah, Ga., Mobile, Ala., 
and Fayetleville, IV. C. 



ORGANIZED 1835 :r=^==rr — 
OLDEST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IN AMERICA. 

I New England _^_ I 

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I Insurance Company | 

1 .^:i^g_.OF BOSTON, MASS, | 

Issues all forms of Life, Endowment, Limited Payments 

and In^allment Policies. 

Cash Surrender, paid up and extended. 

Insurance plainly written in all installments. 

Liberal Loans to Policy Holders. 

UOOD CONTRACTS TO LIVE AGENTS. 
^AF r^ g'^^ r?7^ *fWZ Henerai Agent for Georgia. 

il3 Bay Street, West, SAVANNAH, GA. 




WELCOME 
VETERANS 





E EXTEND you a hearty wel- 
cotre to our city as well as to 
our store, the most complete and modern 
Clothing Store. We carry the finest 

lines of Men's, Ladies', Boys' and Child- 
ren's Clothing and Furnishings ever 

carried by one iirin in the South. 

VETERANS' UNIFORM COATS 

READY TO WEAR 
ON HAND 

ou Want ©ne. 

OUR STOCK is so complete that we can 

fit you in size, no matter what your 

proportions are. 
WE CAN SUIT YOU in price, no matter 

what your circumstances are. 
OUR QUALITIES are always of a high 

standard and our prices moderate. 
WE GIVE CASH BUYERS a special 

discount of 10%. 

B. H. Levy & Bro., 

7 and 9 Broughton St., West, 



HARDWARE. 

FINE POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY. 
GUARANTEED RAZORS, STROPS, &C. 
LARGE STOCK OF SAFETY RAZORS. 

HAMMER AND HAMMERLESS 

SHIOT a-TJisrs.# 

RIFLES AND REVOLVERS 

EMPTY AND LOADED SHELLS. 

Edward Lovell's Sons, 

113-115 Brouohlon Street, West, 






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to an inspection of our Elegant Stock of 



WATCHES, DIAMONDS, ij^^ 
and JEWELRY of every S^ 
description. 



eUT gLASS, m^U, WALKING EANES, UMBRELLAS 






and everything usually found in a 






first class Jewelry Establishment. 

Repairing of Watches and Jewelry by the VERY BtST WORKMEN. 



JULL AND BROUGHTON STREETS. 



aEKISK:;iiEMJi:JEJaj»^K 



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FRESH 



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and Rivers 



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Buy your marketing 
from the Public riarket. 



Fresh and From First Hands. 



Be 5ure that it i5 from 



CITY 



MARKET. 



H. LOGAN, 




Sletnetnber 

Ithc Palace 

^ ^ ^ ^ 42 BULL STREET. 

The place to find the best of 

Liquor5, Winc5 and 5ega r5. 

FRESH COOL BEER ON DRAUGHT 

Fine Hit Lm ch served everj- day from 1 1 to 1 P. n. 
(j jod service and polite attention lo patrons. 




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TRinnED niLLINERY. 

Trimmed Hats at $4.98, 




We are showing a collection of upwards 
of six thousand 'I'rinimed Hats or which 
there are no two nlike. Many of these hats 
are copies of imported models — many of 
them the creations of our own skilled 
trimmers; there are no better hats anywhere 
at any prices; beautifully made— richly trim- 
med — becoming and of the very newest stvle 
they are positively incomparable. 
Hats that would cost elsewhere -< 
$10.00 to $12.00, marked here 



4.98 



CHILDREN'S TRIMMED HATS 

the siualle.st child 
and the young miss. 
Hats marked at - - 



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Leopold Adler, President. C. S. Ellis, Vice-President 

W. F. McCauley, Cashier. 



The Chatham Bank, 



Will be pleased to receive the accounts of Merchants, Firms, 

hidividuals. Banks and Corporations. 

Liberal favors extended. 

Unsurpassed collection facilities, insuring prompt returns. 



5eparate Savings Department 

Interest Compounded Quarterly on Deposits. 



Safety Deposit Boxes and Vaults for rent. Correspondence solicited. 
ESTABLISHED 1864. - - OLDEST IN THE SOUTH. 

A. W. MASTERSON, 

SUCCESSOR TO 

J. B. FERNANDEZ. 



Importer and Dealer in i f j[Jg gjgarS 311(1 TobaCGOS. 

Best Imported Meerschaum 
and Briar P/p^^ ti^m^^ 

COR BULL AND BROUGHTON STREETS, 
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No. I640. 



CHARTERED 1866. 



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OF- SAVANNAH. 



CAPITAL, $500,000. - - - SURPLUS, $100,000. 

UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. 



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S. GUCKENHEIMBR, President. 
J. A. G. CARSON, Vice-President. 
W. M. DAVANT, Cashier. 



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Accounts of banks and bankers, merchants and corpora- 
tions received upon the most favorable terms consistent with 
safe and conservative banking. 








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Prcs and Mgr. Economical Drug Co.- 
Chicago, 111. 



HERMAN MYERS, Prerident. 
J. J. DALE Vice-Pkesident. 



F. D. BLOODWORTH, Cashier. 
J. G. GRADY, Ass'T Cashier. 





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ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. 



HERMAN MYERS .. , 

JOS. J. DALE 

GEO. J. BALDWIN, . , 
W. W. WILLIAMSON, 
JOS W. JACKSON, . . 
JOS. ROSENHEIM, . . 
J. S. COLLINS, . . . 
JACOB PAULSEN, . . 
A. B. PALMER, . . . 
SIGO MYERS, . . . . 
E. S. ETTENHEIMER, . 



-DIRECTORS. 

President Savannah Grocery Cc. 

President O.S. & T. Co. 

President Edison Electric III. Co. 

with Wilder & Co. 

Jackson, Metzger & Co. 

Jos. Rosenheim & Son. 

Collins, Grayson & Co. 

President Propeller Towboat Co. 

Palmer Hardware Co. 

Cuban-American Manf'g Co., of New York. 

Capitalist, Rochester. N. Y. 






Savannah Bank & Trust Co. 



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Accounts of banks, merchants, corporations and in- 
dividuals solicited. 

Savings Department, interest paid quarterly. 

Safety Boxes and Storage Vaults for rent. 

Collections made on all points at reasonable rates. 

Drafts sold on all the chief cities of the world. 

Correspondence invited. 



JOSEPH D. WEED, President. 
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice-President. 
W. G. CANN, Cashier. 



BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, MILLS BEE LANE, GEO. C. FREEMAN, 

Presideai. Vice-Presldeat Cashier. 



STATEMENT OF 



THE CITIZENS BANK 

VOF SAVANNAH-^V-- 

AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, OCTOBER 1 6TH. 1899 



RESOURCES. 



Louis and Discounts, 
Bonds and Stocks, . . 
Furniture and Fixtures, . 
Banking House, . . . 

Real Estate, 

Cash and Due from Banks 
Taxes and Expenses, 



$1,247,696.37 
. 176,363.93 

1,868.60 
. 95,000.00 
. 18,035.70 
. 670,153.84 

8,978.71 
$2,218,097.15 



LIABILITIES. 

Capital, $500,000.00 

Surplus and Profits, . . 91,867.76 

Dividends Unpaid, . . . 1,460.00 

Deposits, 1,624,769.39 



$2,218,097.15 



The Oermania Bank 



SAVANNAH, GA. 



CAPITAL, - - - - $200,000. 
UNDIVIDED PROFITS, 50,000. 

Tins bank offers its services to corporations, merchants and 
individuals. 

Has autliority to act as executor, administrator, yuardian, etc. 

Issues drafts on the principal cities in Great Britain and 
Ireland, and on the Continent. 

Interest paid or compounded quarterly on deposits in the 
Savings Dep;irtment. 

Safety boxes for rent. 



HENRY BLUN. President. 

I. B. TIEDEMAN. Vice-President. 



JOHN M. HOGAN. Cashier. 
WALTER F. HOGAN, Ass't Cashier. 



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Southern Bank B State of Georgia, 

JOHN PLANNERY, President. HORACE A. CRANE, Vice-President. 
JAMBS SULLIVAN, Cashier. 



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CAPITAL 
$500,000.00 

SURPLUS 

and 

UNDIVIDED 

PROFITS 

$372,000.00 



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DEPOSITORY 

OF THE 

STATE. 

CONDUCTS 

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DEPARTMENT 

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SAVINGS. 



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DIRECTORS. 



JNO. FLANNEUY, of Savannah. 

E. A. WEIL. 

H. A. CRANE. 

LEE ROY MYERS, ' 

H. P. SMART, 

EDWARD KELLY, Of New York. 



WM. W. GORDON, ot Savannah. 
W. W. GORDON, Jr. 
.JOHN M. EGAN, " 
.JOSEPH FERST, 
CHARLES ELLIS, ' 
.lOHN .1. KIKBY, ■ 



HERriAN nyERS, 

PRESIDENT. 



J. ntNDCL, 

SECRETARY & TREASURER. 



5IGO nycRS, 

VICE-PRESIDENT. 




COMPANY, 



Incorporated July 11, 1889. 

SAVAITITAH, aA. 



W^holcsale Sroccrs, Imt>ortcrs, 



*— AND DEALERS IN—* 

Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, Etc. 

Manufacturer's Ageuts and Distributors of CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, ami HAVANA 
CUTTINGS, the best Nickel Cigars; and EL MODELO-in all sizes-the tinest clear 
Havana Cigar in the market. 

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i/eterans Attention! ! 



Save Money when in our city 
by buying your 

Shioes & Hats 

^ J* AT <^ <^ 

A. S. NICHOLS, 

8 BROUGHTON ST., AVEST. 

We have the best Medium Price Goods 
in the city for the money. 

% NIGHOLS. 






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Fried's Restaurant 



MARKFT BASEMi^NT. 



....Best 25 Cent IVleal in the City.... 



'VVVW>/"W-s 



All Game and Fish in Season. 

Finest Cuisine. >C3«v Best Service. 

-^mm?RON[?J AND POLITE ATIENFIUN.^^^ 

Don't Forget! 

J, FRIED, City MAt^KET Basement. 

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YOUR ATTENTION 

Is invited to the marve'ous properties of 
SMITH'S CHILL AND FEVER TONIC. 

Our preparation is receiving the highest endorsements from users; 
and is 

GUARANTEED TO CURE 

The most malignant forms of Chills, Typhoid or Hemorrhagic Fever, 
OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED. 

We base our claims on the many testimonials received; which evi- 
dence the fact that, where used according to directions, it has never 
failed to cure. 



TO BE HAD OF ALL DRUGGrSTS. 



MANUFACTURED BY 

COLUMBIA DRUG COMPANY, 

SAVANNAH. Co. 



The Gem 






Congress and 
Whitaker Streets 






Geo. C. Schwarz 



WMI5KEy 
BEER 



The Best cigars 

Oy5TEK5 



SERVICE 



THAT'S ALL. 



Central of Georgia Railway. 
BEST LINE 



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BETWEEN 



SAVANNAH 



AND 

AUGUSTA, MACON, ATHENS, 
ATLANTA, COLUMBUS, 
BIRMINGHAH, MONTGOMERY, 
AMERICUS, ALBANY, COLUMBIA, 
TROY, ANDALUSIA and 
INTERMEDIATE POINTS. 

Only Line operating Double Daily Trains between 
Savannah, Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, with Sleep- 
ing Cars by Night and Parlor Cars by Day. 

Only Line with Through Sleeping Cars to Columbus 
and Birmingham, Ala. Connecting at Columbus for 
Union Springs, Troy, Andalusia and flontgomery, Ala. 

UNEQUALLED PASSENGER SERVICE. 



For Time Tables and Descriptive Advertising matler apply to any Agent of the Company. 
W. 6. BREWER, City Ticket and Passenger Agent, - ■ - 107 Bull St., Savannah. Ga. 



JOHN M. E6AN, Vice-President. E. H. HINTON, TraHc Manager. 

THEO. D. KLINE, Gen'l Superintendent. J. C. HAILE, Gen'l Pass'r Agent. 

SAVANNAH, GA. 

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Official Guide Booli and Programme. 



Savannah, Ga., November 22, 23 and 24, 1899. 



Published under the direction of the Reunion Committee on 
Frinting and Publicity. 



THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

John Screven, Chairman. 

F. D. Blood worth, Vice Chairman, Chairman Committee on Fi- 
nance . 

J. H. Estill, Second Vice Chairman. 

D. G. Purse, Chairman Transportation Committee. 

John R. Dillon, Chairman Committee on Convention and Halls. 

James R. Sheldon, Chairman Committee on Quartermaster and 
Commissary Supplies. 

J. H. H. Osborne, Vice Chairman, Committee on Commissary 
Supplies. 

W. W. Starr, Vice Chairman, Committee on Quartermaster Sup- 
plies. 

O. S. Ellis, Chairman Information Committee. 

Clayton R. Woods. 

P. McGlashan, Chairman Committee on Reception. 

C. L. Chesnutt, Chairman Committee on Decoration and Illum- 
ination. 

S. E. Theus, Chairman Committee on Entertainment. 

J. M. Solomons, 

E.G. Ryals, Chairman Committee on Printing and Publicity. 

U. H. McLaws. 

William Harden, Treasurer. 

M. P. Usina, Secretary. 

H. M. Branch, Assistant Secretary. 

E. C. Ryals, Assistant Secretary. 

W. G. Sutlive, Assistant Secretary. .'. 



OPFICIftL rROQKf\t\fA^, 



Time used is 75tli Meridian Standard, one liour faster tlian West- 
ern or 90th Meridiantinie. 

Wednesday, IVoveiiiber 22. 

10 A. M.— Morning Session of the Convention, Savannah The- 
ater. 

Convention called to order, by General Clement A. Evans, Com- 
manding Georgia Division, U. C. V. 

Invocation, by Rev. Charles II. Strong. 

Appointment of Committee on Credentials, by Division Com- 
mander. 

Address of Welcome on behalf of the Citizens of Savanna li, by 
Hon. Herman Myers, Mayor. 

Addi-ess of Welcome on behalf of United Confederate Veterans, 
Sons of Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy, 
resident in Savannah, by Col. John Screven, Cliaii-man of the Re- 
union Executive Committee. 

Response to Addresses of Welcome, by Division Commander, 
General Clement A. Evans. 

Roll Call of the Camps, by the Secretary. 

Report of Committee on Credentials. 

General Report of Division Commander. 

Special Report of Division Commander and his Advisory Com- 
mittee on the New Constitution, and the sub-division of tlie Division 
into Birigades. 

Appointment of Special Committees. 

3 P. M.— Afternoon Session of the Convention at the Guards' 
Armory. 

Introduction of Resolutions and Refeience to Appropriate Com- 
mittees. 

Reports of Committees. 

Introduction of Distinguished Guests. 

Introduction of Daughters of the Confederacy. 

4:30 P. M. — Anmuil Parade of the Savannah Fire Department. 
Reviewed by the Maj'or and Aldermen, and the Convention from the 
balconies of the Guards' Armory. 

8 P. M. — Evening Session of the Convention, Guards' Armory. 

Music, Confederate Airs. 

Introduction of Sons of Confederate Veterans, to whom the Ses- 
sion will be turned over. 

Music and Fireworks in Park Extension on Wednesday Evening. 

Thursday; ]Voveniber 23. 

10 A. M.— Morning Session of the Convention, Savannah The- 
ater. 

Reading of Minutes. 

Introduction of Resolutions and Reference to appropriate com- 
mittees. 

Reports of Committees. 

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Addresses . 

Discussion of tlie Committee Reports. 

Miscellaneous Business. 

3:30 P. M.— Parade of the Veterans, Sons of Veterans and Mil- 
itary. 

The various camps in attendance will assemble in front of the 
Chatham Artillery Armory, opposite the Postoffice, to participate in 
a general parade of Veterans and Sons of Veterans, commanded by 
General Evans, Division Commander, and escorted by local mili- 
tary commands. 

8 P. M.— Evening Session of the Convention, Guards' Armory. 

Music, Confederate Airs. 

Reports of Committees. 

Addresses . 

Discussion of the Reports and Addresses. 

Miscellaneous Business. 

Music and Fireworks in Park Extension on Thursday P^vening. 

Friday, IVovember 24. 

10 A. M.— Morning Session of the Convention, Savannah The- 
ater. 

Reading of minutes. 

Introduction of resolutions and reference to appropriate commit- 
tees. 

Reports of committees. - 

Discussion of reijorts of committees. 

Miscellaneous business. 

Confirmation of the minutes of the day's session. 

Adjournment sine die. 

2 P. M. — Excursion and oj'sler roast for Veterans, Sons of Vet- 
erans and Daugliters of the Confederacy, and their families, and 
those, witli their families, who have rendered material aid to the 
local reunion coumiittees, to assist in entertaining the guests of the 
occasion. 

Music and fireworks in the Park Extension on Fridav evening. 



Besides the i-egular programme of the reunion, formulated by 
the commander of the division and the local executive committee, 
other and lighter forms of amusement will be provided. This mat- 
ter is in tlie hands of the entertainment committee. 

This committet contemplates and has mutually agreed upon a 
Bohemian Smoker for one night of the revmion, and for a Confeder- 
ate entertainment at the theater for another. Mr. S. E. Theus, the 
chairman of this committee is of long experience in such mattei's, 
and may be relied on, because of his close interest in all Confed- 
erate institutions and his warm lo\e for their present representa- 
tives, to do eveiy thing possible to make the stay of the Veterans in 
Savannah as pleasant as is possible. 



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Annual Convention, Georgia Division, United 
Sons Confederate Veterans. 



The Reunion of the Georgia Division, United Sons of Confeder- 
ate Veterans, will be held in Savannah at the same time as that of 
their sires. The annual convention has been ordered held in Sa- 
vannah by Commander Hollins N. Randolph, of Atlanta, on Novem- 
ber 22, 23 and 24. The sessions of the convention will be held at 
Odd Fellows' Hall, on the comer of Barnard and State streets. 
The entrance is on State street, and the hall where the sessions will 
be held on the third floor of the building. 

10 A. M.— Morning Session of Convention, Odd Fellows' Hall. 

Call to order, by Division Commander Hollins N. Randolph. Ap- 
pointment of Credential Committee. Addresses of Welcome. Re- 
sponse. Repoi't of Credential Committee. 

3 P. M.— Afternoon Session of Convention. Business of the I>i- 
vision . 

9:30 P. M.— Dinner to delegates by Francis S. Bartow Camp, at 
Odd Fellows' Hall. 

Thursday, IVoveinber 23. 

10 A. M.— Morning Session of Convention. 

Report of Committee on By-Laws. Discussion of Report. 

3:30 P. M.— Parade of Veterans, in which Sons of Veterans will 
take part. 

Friday, IVovember 24. 

10 A. M.— Morning Session of Convention, Odd Fellows' Hall. 

Election of oflicers for ensuing year. Selection of place and 
time for next annual reunion. Adjournment, sine die. 

2 P. M.— Excursion and oyster roast with Veterans and Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy. 

Kuights of Pythias' Street Fair iu the Park Extension. 




Lieutenant Colonel Jobn Screven. 

Was born in Savannah, Ga., September 18th, 1827. After com- 
pleting his preliminai-y education, he studied law, amd was admitted 
to the bar in 1849. In 1859-60, he represented Chatham County in 
the Georgia Legislature. From 1859 to 1880 he was President of 
the Atlantic and Gulf, now the Savannah, Florida and Western 
Railway. In 1858, he was elected Captain of the Savannah Volun- 
teer Guards, and his was one of the three companies designated to 
occupy Fort Pulaski, when it was seized, by order of Governor 
Brown, in the name of the State of Georgia, January 2nd, 38G1. Al- 
though President of the Atlantic and Gulf Railway during this pe- 
riod, he was appointed Major of Artillery in the Confederate Provis- 
ional Array, and continued to serve with his command in the de- 
fenses about Savannah, until December, 1862, when he was ordered 
by the Commanding General to resume his railway duties. In 1864. 
when Sherman commenced his movement tOAvards the coast, Major 
Screven raised a local battalion of five companies to aid in the de- 
fense of Savannah, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 
Colonel. Beginning in 1869, he was thrice successively elected 
Mayor of Savannah, and was a delegate to the Georgia Constitu- 
tional Convention in 1877. Colonel Screven has been for many 
years a Trustee of the University of Georgia, and is now President 
of the University Club of Savannah, President of the Trustees of 
Chatham Academy, President of the Georgia Society of the Sons of 
the Revolution, and President of the Georgia Historical Society. 
Colonel Screven is now serving as Chairman of the Joint Executive 
Committee of the Confederate Veteran Associations of Savannah, 
charged with arranging for the Reunion of the Georgia Division of 
United Confederate Veterans, to be held in Savannah on the 22nd, 
23rd and 24th of November, 1899. 



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Brigadier General Clement Anselm Evans. 

Commauder of the Georgia Division of United Confederate Vet- 
erans, is a native Georgian, born in 1833, in Stewart County. He 
was admitted to the bar when eighteen years of age. He was elect- 
ed Judge of his County Coiu-t when twenty-two years old. and after 
service in that office, was elected to the Georgia Senate at the age 
of twenty-six . When the war commenced he embraced the cause of 
his ijeople with enthusiasm, and promptly enlisted as a Confederate 
soldier. First Commissioned Major of the Thirty- First Georgia Reg- 
iment, then promoted Colonel, he Avas made Brigadier General early 
in 1864, and in the winter of the same year, rose to the command of 
his division, and served as Acting Major General until the war end- 
ed. His sei'vice was active and constant during tlie war under 
Stonewall Jackson, Ewell, Early and Gordon, in the campaigns of 
Virginia and the invasions and battles of Pennsylvania and Mary- 
land. He served with his own brigade from its first organization 
to the last battle of the Army of Northern Virginia, closing his mil- 
itary career, in the capacity of Major Geneial, in the last change at 
Appomattox. In the course of this sei-vice he was wounded several 
times, twice severely, one of his wounds not healing for eleven 
years. After the war he became a Methodist minister, and spent 





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many years in the ranks of the Georgia Confei-ence, until forced to 
retire by trouble from his old wounds. Being an ardent Confeder- 
ate, General Evans has given much attention to the reunions of his 
comrades, and was one of the organizers of the United Confederate 
Veterans. His interest in the true history of the war has been 
shown by frequent addi-esses in Richmond, Charleston, Chattanooga, 
Birmingham, and in many places in his own State. In n^cognition 
of his interest in the truth of history, he has been many years a 
member of the Committee on History of the United Confederate Vet- 
erans. He is a splendid orator, and one of the most distinguished 
of Georgia's sons. General Evans has been Commander of the Geor- 
gia Division of the United Confederate Veterans from 1892, and 
since his accession to the command, he has ineieased the number of 
camps from 20 to 130. At the annual convention of the division in 
Charleston, 1899, he was authorized to form an Advisory Commit- 
tee, and, with its assistance, to suggest a plan to subdivide the divis- 
ion into brigades. Under this plan it is expected that the division 
will enjoy perijetuity as long as there are any Confederates to main- 
tain it. 

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L.ieutenant General John Brown Gordon. 

Was boru in Upson Coiinty, Geor?:ia, in July 1832. Graduated 
from the University of Georgia, in which he wore the first honor 
of his class, he chose the law for his profession, but after practicing 
it a short time, he devoted himself to mining. At the beginning of 
the Civil War, he enlisted in tlie Confederate Aliny, and for his he- 
roic conduct, he was rapidly promoted from a Captaincy, through 
evei-y successive rank, to that of Lieutenant General, commanding a 
wing of the Army of Northern Vii-ginia. No soldier, after (Jenei-als 
Pvobert K . Lee and Stonewall Jackson, won more illustrious honors 
or greater glory than General Gordon. He was five times wounded 
at Sharpsburg; received five other wounds in other battles; was the 
Hero of the Bloody Angle on the 12th of May, 1864; led the last 
charge at Appomattox, capturing the Federal intrenchments and 
their artillery. His exhortation to the soldiers of his command^to 
return peaceably to their homes, to obey the laws, to rebuild the 
country, and to labor for the public welfare, was a master-piece of 
patriotic and effective eloquence. General Gordon has been repeat- 
edly elected delegate to the most important political conventions . In 
1873, he was elected United States Senator, and again in 1879. but 
resigned before his term of office expired. He was elected Govern- 
or of Georgia in 1886, and again in 1888. For the third time, in 1890, 
he was elected United States Senator, serving out his full terra. 
General Gordon is now living in honorable retirement, after a ca- 
reer of extraordinaiy distinction, and the United Confederate Vet- 
erans exult iu hailing him as the Chief of their organization. 

Ueiitenant General ^f ade llaniplon. 

The last of three successive generations of distinguished sol- 
diers, was born at Columbia, S. C, in 1818. Graduating in the Uni- 
versity' of South Carolina, he pursued the study of law, but did not 
engage in the practice of that profession. Early in life he became 
a member of the Legislature of South Carolina, but devoted him- 
self to his large planting interests in that state and iu Mississippi, 
and to field sports, which prepared him in some degree for tlie part 
he was destined to take in military service. When the Civil AVar 
broke out, he enlisted as a private, but so<m raised a body of trooiis 
of combined infantry, artillery and cavalry, known as Hampton's 
Legion, which he lead to Virginia, and which commenced its career 
of distinction In the first battle of Manassas, where GOO of the in- 
fantry held Key's Corps at bay, until Jackson came to their aid. 
Colonel Hampton was distinguished in the operations in the Penin- 
sula, and at Seven Fines, the half of his force was desti'oyed and he 
himself severely wounded. He was soon after promoted to Briga- 
dier General of Cavaliy, and attached to the Coi-ps of General J. E. 
B. Stuart, but he was frequently assigned to impoi'tant detached 
service. General Hampton sei-\'ed with distinction iu both the 
Maryland and Pennsylvania Campaigns of 1862 and 1863. In tHe 
bloody sti-uggle at Gettysburg he was wounded three times, and it 
is said, that twenty-one out of twenty-three field officers, and more 
than one-half of the men of his command were killed and wounded. 
He was promoted to Major General in August, 1863, and after Lieu- 
tenant General Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern, he succeeded to 
the command of Stuart's Coi-ps. In August, 1864, he was promoted 
to Lieutenant General, and at Trevillian Station, after several days 
of fighting, forced Sheridan to abandon his attempt to join Hunter 
at Lynchburg. In twenty-three days he had captured over 3,000 
prisoners, and much war material, while his own command suffered 
a loss of only 719 men. He was appointed Chief of Cavalry of Lee's 
Ai-my, and after distinguished service near Petei-sburg, and in cov- 
ering the rear of Lee's right flank, he was detached to the command 
of General Joseph E. Johnstone's Oavaliy, which he led to the close 
of militaiy operations in the Carolina^. After the war General 
Hampton returned to planting; but in 1876, he was elected Govern- 
or of South Carolina, and iu 1878, Senator from that state. He 
served another term in this office; but on its expiration, he was ap- 



pointed Commissioner to represent the interests of the United States 
in the Union Pacific Railway, and is now living^ in Columbia in hon- 
orable retirement. 

Brigadier General Peter Alexander Selkirk 
McGlaslian. 

Was born in Edinburgh Scotland, May 19th, 1830. He was the 
son of James McGlashan, an old AYaterloo Veteran and. aftenvard, 
merchant in Edinburgh, the grandson of Peter McGlashan, last 
chief of the clan of that name. Emigrated through Savannah, Ga., 
in 1848, to the West, and, in 1856, joined his fortunes with General 
Walker in Nicaragua. After the failure of the Walker expedition. 
Young McGlashan returned to the United States and engaged in 
business in ThomaSTille, Ga. At the outbreak of the war between 
the States, he joined the Twenty-Ninth Georgia Regiment, in ser- 
vice on the coast; afterwards the Fiftieth Georgia Regiment, and 
was elected First Lieutenant of Company E; went to Virginia in 
June, 1862, and participated in all the campaigns of the Army of 




WADE HAMPION. 



Northern Virginia until April 5th, 1865, meanwhile rising in rank 
from First Lieutenant to Brigadier Genei-al, his commission as Brig- 
adier General being the last signed by President Davis before the 
fall of Richmond. He was wounded in the battles of Sharpsburg 
and Cedar Cteek; was captured at Sailor's Ci-eek, and sent to prison 
at Johnson's Island; was in the Capitol prison, in Washington, the 
night that President Lincoln was assassinated; was released from 
prison August 25th, 1865, and re-entered business in Thomasville, 
Ga.. of which city he was elected Mayor in 186(5; was elected Captain 
of the Thomasville Guards in 1874; moved to Savannah in 1885; is 
now president of the Savannah Confederate Veterans' Association, 
formed in 1887. now known as Camp 756, United Confederate Vet- 
erans. On his mother's side, General McGlashan is descended from 
an old and honorable Border family of Jedburghshire, Scotland, 
known as the "Proud Selkirks of the Jed." His wife, Annie Willis 
S'eixas, is of the same descent as General Nathaniel Greene, his fath- 
er being her great great grandfather, and General Greene her great 
granduncle. 



]>lajor General Lafayette I^cLaws. 

Was born in the city of Augusta, Ga., January 15th, 1821. Grad- 
uating from the West Point Militaiy Academy in 1842, he was as- 
signed to the Sixth United States Infanti-y. He had attained the 
rank of Captain, when, on the secession of his native state, he re- 
signed from the United States Army to share in her fortunes. He 
was appointed Major of the First Regiment of Georgia Regulars; 
but, elected Colonel of the Tenth Georgia Regiment, he served 
with distinction in the operations in the Peninsula. He was promoted 
to Brigadier General September 25th, 1860, and to Major General 
May 23rd, 1862, and led his division in the severe engagement at 
Savage Station, and in the bloody slope of Malvern Hill. His com- 
mand, holding in check the Federal force on the James River, cov- 
ered the Confederate rear in the second battle of Manassas. Gen- 
eral McLaws was criefly instrumental in the capture of Harper's 
Ferry, huriying thence to Sharpsburg in time to save the Confed- 
erate lines from disaster. At Fredericksburg General McLaws' com- 
mand sustained and repulsed the main assault on the Confederate 
position. At Chancellorsville General McLaws held the right of 
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attention of the enemy as to make more certainly successful the 
great flank movement of Stonewall Jackson. It was his division, 
united with that of General Robert H. Anderson, which defeated the 
rear attack of Sedgwick's Corps, drove it across the Rappahannock, 
and so completed the triumph of Chancellorsville. At the battle of 
Gettysburg, General McLaws led his division in the firm and suc- 
cessful assault on Sickle's, and other forces in front of Round Top. 
At Chickamauga, General McLaws led in the pursuit of the enemy, 
and at Knoxville, in the disastrous assault on the Federal defenses. 
In May, 1864, General McLaws was assigned to command the Mil- 
itary District of Georgia, and the Third Military District of South 
Carolina; but skillfully evacuated Savannah on the investment of 
the city by Shennan, and fighting as he retired, met the enemy final- 
ly at Averysboro and Bentonville. General McLaws was the first 
President of the Confederate Veterans' Association of Savannah, 
and finally its Honorary President. He died in Savannah on the 
24th of July, 1897, in his 77th year. 



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Colonel Francis Stebblas Bartow. 

Was boiTi in Savannah, Ga., September Gth, 1816. Graduating 
at tlie University of Georgia in 1835, with the higliest honors of his 
class, he pursued the study of law, and entered the bar. Taking 
at once high rank in his profession, he succeeded hisi distinguished 
fatlier-in-law, the Honorable John Macpherson Berrien on his re- 
tirement from partnership with the late Judge William Law. A 
citizen of his commanding ability and magnetic character could 
scarcely avoid public honors; but it was not until the secession agi- 
tation 'moved the South, that Colonel Bartow took a conspicuous 
part in the public drama of that eventful period. Elected, in 1857, 
Captain of the Oglethoi-pe Light Infantry of Savannah, he developed 
fervent military enthusiasm, and when Fort Pulaski was occupied 
by Governor Brown, in the name of the State of Georgia, January 
2nd, 1861, his was one of the three companies designated for the 
seizure. Colonel Bartow was elected by the secession conventions 
of Georgia, one of the three delegates to represent the state in the 
Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, assembled at Mont- 
gomery. Ala. In this distinguished body, he was Chairman of the 
Committee on Military Affairs, and author of gray as the color for 
the uniform of the Confederate Army. Leaving Savannah. May 21st, 
1861. he led his company to Virginia and joined the Eighth Georgia 
Regiment, of which he became the Colonel. At the first battle of 
Manassas, July 21st, 1861, he commanded a brigade of five regi- 
ments, and was there killed, when the climax of victoiy Avas near, 
exclaiming, ere he died, "They have killed me boys, but never give 
up the field." Colonel Bartow being a member of the Confederate 
Congress at the time of his death, the Honorable Thomas R. R. 
Cobb pronounced his eulogy before that body, and it adjourned in 
honor of his memory. There can be no doubt, that had Colonel Bar- 
tow survived the battle of Manassas Plains, he would have been com- 
missioned a Brigadier General. As already stated, previous to and 
on that memorable field of conflict, he commanded a' brigade of five 
regiments; hence his popular recognition as General Bartow, in 
which rank he is usually refeiTcd to, and now best known. 

Lieutenant General Stephen D. L.ee. 

Was born in Charleston, S. C, September 22ud, 1833. He grad- 
uated from the West Point Military Academy in 1854, and was as- 
signed to the Fourth United States Artillery, in which he became 
First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster. He resigned his 
commission to take part with his native state in the Civil War, and 
was appointed a Captain in the South Carolina forces. As aide to 
General Beauregard, he accompanied Colonel Chestnut in bearing to 
Major Anderson the demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter. Re- 
lieved, at his request, of duty at Charleston, he went to Virginia in 
command of the Light Batteiy of Hampton's Legion. In November, 
1861, he was promoted Major, and then Colonel of Artillery, and 
was in the active operations in the Peninsula, and in the battles 
about Richmond. He wasi distinguished in the second battle of 
Manassas and at Sharpsburg. He was appointed Brigadier General, 
November 6th, 1863, and was tnen ordered to the command of the 
batteries covering the Mississippi at Vicksburg. After the fall of 
that city, he was promoted to Major General, in command of all 
the cavalry in Mississippi, Alabama, West Tennessee, and East 
Louisiana, and, with only 2,500 horses, harrassed all sides of Sher- 
man's Army of 30,000 men. He was especially distinguished in 
these operations by his defeat of Sherman at the battle of Chickasaw 
Bayou. In June, 1864, General Lee was promoted to Lieutenant 
General, in command of the department embracing the above men- 
tioned states, but later he was assigned to tlie command of Hood's 
old Corps, and was engaged in the battles about Atlanta. Moving 
into Tennessee with Hood's Army, ho was present in the disasters 
at Nashville and Franklin; but r^ulsed the enemy at Overton's Hill, 
and was there wounded. He recovered from his wounds in time to 
rejoin the army under General .loseph E. Johnston, and was present 
at its surrender. General Lee has been since 1880, Pi-esident of the 
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. General Lee is 
the second General officer, after General Gordon, of the United Con- 
federate Veterans. 

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Georgia's Sacrifices in the Civil War. 

The simple record of the sacrifices of the State of Georgia will 
show resplendent by her war record. Slie sent to the. field over 
120,000 soldiers, or 20,000 more than her voting population at the be- 
ginning of the war. No statistics were gathered until 1867, after she 
had enjoyed two years of recuperation, there is no means therefore 
of accui-ately estimating the damage she suffered. Her aggregate 
wealth in 1807 was $181,235,520, or $481,497,381 less than in 1801. 
and her gain from 1865 would have been fully fifteen or twenty mill- 
ions, making her war loss amount to the prodigious proportion of 
three-fourths of her wealth. We can best estimate Georgia's hero- 
ism and suffering by comparing her l<iss<>s with those of other South- 
ern States, as follows: Georgia, .$^.si.(KM>,(mh>, or over three-fourths 
•of her wealth; S^onth Carolina, $32U,O(XJ,0(Mj, or two-thirds; Mississip- 
pi, $355,000,000, or two-thirds; Virginia, $186,000,000. or two-sev- 
enths; North Carolina. $160,000,000, or one-half; Kentucky, $104,000,- 
000, or one-fifth; Lonisiana, $185,000,000, or two-fifths; Tennessee, 
$69,000,000, or one-fifth; Florida, $36,000,000, or one-half; Missouri 
gained $286,000,000.— From Avei-y's History of the State of Georgia, 
from 1856 to 1881. 

Comparison of Confederate and Federal Forces in 
the Ci\il War. 

"One of the most striking features of the war was the great dis- 
parity between the numbers on the opposite sides. From its begin- 
ning to its end, nearly if not quite, 2,000,000 more of Federals Avere 
brought into its field than the entire forces of the Confederates. 

The Federal records show that they had, from first to last, 2,000,- 
000 men in the service; while the Confederates, all told, in like man- 
ner, had but little over 600,000. The aggregate Federal population 
at its commencement was above 22,000,000; that of the Confederates, 
less than 10,000,000, nearly 4,000,000 of these being negro slaves, and 
constituting no part of tlie arms l^aring portion of this population. 
Of the Federal prisoners during the war, the Confederates took in 
round numbers 270,(XX); wliile the whole number of Confederates cap- 
tured and held in prisons by the Federals, was in like roimd num- 
bers, 220,000. In reference to the treatment of prisoners on the re- 
spective sides, about which much was said at the time, two facts 
are worthy of note: One is, that the Confederates were ever anxious 
for a speedy exchange, which the Federals Avould not agree to; the 
other is, that of the 270,CKX) Federal prisone-rs, 22,576 died in Con- 
federate hands, and of the 220,000 taken by the Federals, 26,436 died 
in their hands; the mortiiaiy tables thiis exhibiting a large per cent. 
in favor of Confederate humanity. The entire loss on both sides, 
including those who was permanently disabled, as well as those 
killed in battle, and who died from wounds and diseases contracted 
in the service, amounted, upon a reasonable estimate, "to the stu- 
pendous aggregate of 1.000,000 of men."— History of the United 
States by Alexander H. Stephens. 

Troops Furnished by .*><avannah and Ticinity in the 
Confederate* Service. 

First Regiment Georgia Volunteers. 
One company of the Eighth Georgia Volunteers. 

Nearly all tlie First Georgia Regulars. 

Part of the T\venty-Fifth, Forty-Seventh and Fifty-Fourth Geor- 
giar Volunteers. 

Nearly all the Sixty-Third Georgia Volunteers. 

Part of the Fifth and part of the Seventh Cavaliy went from Sa- 
vannah and vicinity. 

The TAventy-Second Battalion of Artillery. 

Wheaton's Batteiy of Artillery. 

Fraser's Batteiy of Artillery. 

First Company of the Georgia Hussars, Company A, was a part 
of Jeff Davis' Legion. 

Maj. A. HoriHud's Battalion of Ti''"a-'ty. 

First Georgia Shan^shooters, Eighteenth Georgia Battalion, So- 
vannah Volunteer Guards, First Battalion Georgia Reserves. 

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Sherman's March to the Sea. 

W'hen Atlanta had been abandoned by Hood, and his army had 
"been followed by Sherman until it had gone far enough toward 
Tennessee to render it impossible for it to return upon Sherman, the 
latter set out upon his projected march through Georgia to the sea, 
leaving Hood with an army of 40,000 men, to be taken care of by 
Thomas with an army in position of about 70,000 men. 

Sherman's army at Atlanta, consisting of 55,329 infantrj', 5,063 
cavalry, and 1,812 artillery, with between sixty and seventy guns, in 
all 62,204 men and officers, moved from that city November 15th, 
1864, in two columns of nearly equal strength. The right column, 
under Major General 0.0. Howard, followed the line of the Macon 
and Western Railroad; the left, under Major General H. W. Slocum, 
followed the line of the Georgia Railroad, both forces destroying the 
railroads respectively, as they advanced southward and eastward, 
feigning to threaten Macon and Augusta, when their real objective 
was Savannah, Port Royal, or Charleston, as events might demand, 
and failing all these, Apalachiocola on tlie Gulf of Mexico. The Cav- 
-alry, under General Judson Kilpatrick, was to operate independently 
under the immediate direction of Sherman, whose headquarters in 
•the beginning of the march were with the column of General Slo- 
cum. 

When Sherman reached a commanding hill outside of Atlanta, he 
paused to look back upon the scene of devastation and wreck he him- 
self had wrought. To quote his own language: "Behind us lay 
"Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in 
"air and hanging like a pall over the i^uined city. AAvay off in the 
"distance was the rear of Howard's column, the gun barrels glisten- 
"ing in the sun, the white-topped wagons sti'etching way to the 
"south; and right before us the Fourteenth Corps, marching steadily 
"and rapidly with a cheery look and swinging pace, that made light 
■"of the thousand miles, that lay between us and Richmond. Some 
"band by accident struck up the anthem of 'John Brown's Soul Is 
*' 'Marching On;' the men caught up tlie strain, and never before or 
"since have I heard the chorus of 'Glory, Glory, Hallelujah,' done 
"with more spirit or in better harmony of time and place." 

So sang fanaticism its anthem over the i"uin it had wrought, and 
so began the boasted march to the sea! 

The first converging point of the two columns was Milledgeville, 
the then capital of the State, and with this in view, kSlocum deviated 
to the right at Covington, after destroying the railroad beyond that 
point to Madison, and without any opposition reached Milledgeville. 
Howard's march was longer and less direct. Passing from ISIcDon- 
ough through Monticello, he moved toward Griswoldville, where 
was located a Confederate pistol factory, and where he would begin 
the desti-uctlon of the Central Railroad . 

In the meantime the Confederate forces under Major General 
Gustaver W. Smith, consisting of about 2,800 infantry, three bat- 
teries of light artillery, and between two and three hundred local 
cavalry, had dropped back from .lonesboro to Lovejoy, thence to Grif- 
fin and Forsyth, and finally to Macon, there joining Major General 
Howell Cobb, whose force, with this addition, aggregated some 4,- 
000 irregulars and I'eserves, assembled from several otlier points. 
Kilpatrick's Cavaliy made a strouge demonstration against Macon, 
but was easily repulsed. General Smith was ordered by Lieutenant 
General Hardee, now in command of the department, fearing for the 
arsenal, the powder, and other factories at Augusta, to follow 
the First Brigade of Georgia Militia to that city; but Smith's com- 
mand, consisting of the Second, Thii-d and Fourth Brigades of Geor- 
gia Militia, and Anderson's Light Battery, leaving Macon on Novem- 
ber 21st, was halted at Griswoldville for further orders, and there en- 
countered the right of Howard's column, arriving on the same day. 
A shai-p engagement ensued, in which the Confederates met the en- 
•emy, consisting of Woods' division of the Fifteenth Corps, with a 



regiment of cavalry on either flank, with unflinching gallantry, los- 
ing more than GOO killed and wounded, or more than one-fourth of 
their effective muskets in action. Sherman states in his memoirs, 
that they were met only by Walcott's Brigade, armed with Spencer 
rifle's, and hence ilie weight and destructiveness of ttie fedenii tire. 

These occurrences indicate, that the two columns of Sherman's 
Army had virtually converged at Milledgeville, as appointed, Slo- 
cum reaching that place on the 23rd, and Howard reaching Gris- 
woldville, (Gordon), on the day previous, in easy communication with 
each other. Milledgeville would be about eighty miles from At- 
lanta, as the crow flies, but as the marches of both columns were 
deflective and over one hundred miles each, they had averaged not 
less than fourteen miles per diem. 

Sherman accompanying Slocum's column, found the capital de- 
serted by the Legislature and Executive officers of the state. All 
portable property, including the state records, had been removed on 
the enemy's approach, but before his departure, Sherman destroyed 
the arsenal and such other public buildings as 
might be converted to hostile uses. Little or no 
damage was done to private property, and cot- 
ton factories and many thousand bales of cotton were spared upon* 
bond being given, that they would not be used for the Confederacy. 
But it is not to be inferred from such statements, that like regard was 
paid to other private property in the passage of Sherman's Armjr 
from Atlanta to Milledgeville. Many homes were destroyed, alE 
more or less plundered, provisions were destroyed when not robbed,. 
the streams were polluted with carcasses of cattle, mules and horses. 
and the air reekeil with tlie lualodor of the stock of farmers, corralled 
and ruthlessly shot. 

Howard's column passed on down the Central Railroad, destroy- 
ing it on the march, to Sandersville. Slocum's col- 
umn, leaving Milledgeville on the 24th, halted near by, 
and Sherman finding, that the Confederate Cavalry had burned 
stacks of fodder standing in the fields, ordered some empty neigh- 
boring houses to be burned, as an example of the devastation, he had 
proclaimed and would inflict, where food, corn and fodder were de- 
stroyed in the route of his army. 

From this point Sherman's Army was divided into four columns 
to take better advantage of the roads leading to Savannah— Blair's 
Corps, the Seventeenth, moving on and destroying the Central Rail- 
road; the Fifteenth Corps, under Howard occupying the road soutb 
of the railroad, and in part south of the Ogeechee River; the Twen- 
tieth Corps, under Slocum, to the left of Blair; and the Fourteenth. 
Coi-ps under Davis, being the left wing, all in good mutual sup- 
porting order, moving on Millen and Waynesboro. Sherman en- 
tered Millen December 3rd, with Blair's Corps, but the large num- 
ber of Federal prisoners confined there had been safely removed tO' 
Savannah. The railroad depot was destroyed and other damage- 
done, and the march was resumed. 

On December 5th, Sherman, with Blair's Coi'ps, reached Ogee- 
chee Church and there found the first earthwork in his way. This, 
had been thrown up by McLaws' division, but had been evacuated, 
when found to be untenable. "No enemy opposed us," wrote Sher- 
man, with a serenity more sublime than truthful, "and we could 
"only occasionally hear the faint reverberation of a gun to our left 
"rear, where we knew General Fitzpatrick was skirmishing, with 
"Wheeler's Cavalry, which persistently followed him. But the in- 
"fantry columns had met with no opposition whatsoever." 

"The reverberation of a gun to our left rear," meant more than' 
General Sherman was disposed to admit. Apprehending, that Kil- 
patrick's Division of Cavalry, 5,500 strong, moving on Sherman's- 
left, would assail Augusta, Wheeler threw his force, at no time ex- 
ceeding 3.500 men, of whom not more than 2,000 were available, 
upon Kilpatrick, and not only cut him off from Augusta, but fre- 
quently charged and routed his force. He allowed no rest to the 
enemy, confronting, pursuing, and attacking him whenever he could' 
be overtaken, as at Macon, Clinton, Griswoldville, Milledgeville, 
Waynesboro, Buckhead Creek, until he found the roads to Savan- 
nah blocked and the country in that vicinity impracticable for cav- 
alry operations. Sherman x-eached Pooler on December Sth. That night 

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Wheeler shelled the camp of the Fourteenth Corps. He then crossed 
the Savannah River and covered Hardee's communication to Har- 
deeville. There was opposition to the marcli of Sherman's forces at 
the Central Railroad bridges over the Canoochee and Ogeechee, and 
at the Ohoopee common bridge. At the last point, there Avas a spir- 
ited but futile resistance by a small body of troops under Colonel 
Fiser, and also at the Ogeechee Bridge, by a larger force; but the 
troops were recalled within the Confederate lines at Savannah. 

All the doubts, some of them fantastic, that had hitherto been 
indulged as to the objective of General Sherman, Avhile his army was 
on the march, were now dispelled. The investment of Savannah 
began with the arrival of his troops on the lOtli of December, against 
the western exposure of the city. To meet this a series of strong 
earthworks intercommunicated in some instances by infantry trenches 
had been located at suitable points behind the rice fields and 
swamps, which beginning at Williamson's plantation on the Savan- 
nah River, about three and one-half miles from the Exchange, extend 
with few intervals to the Great Ogeechee River. Those fields and 
swamps could be and were inundated to a depth of from three to six 
feet; but the Confederate intrenchments were not extended to the 
Great ( tgeechee, but to the Little Ogeechee River, where their left 
terminated near the bridge of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad about 
nine miles from the city. In these intrenchments, extending over 
a line more than thirteen miles in length, were mounted fifty-four 
emplaced guns, the heaviest of which were a few 32-pounders, and 
in support were eleven light batteries of forty-eight guns in all, for 
which ramps had been prepared. 

Major General Gustaver W. Smith commanded the right resting 
on the Savannah River, his line extending about two miles and a 
half, nearly to the Central Railroad, and was occupied by about 2 000 
men. Major General McLaws commanding the center, his line com- 
mencing near the Central Railroad and ending at the swamp to the 
left of Daly's farm, measured three and three-quarter miles. His 
troops numbered in all 3,750 men. Major General A. R. Wright, 
commanding the left, extending from the Daly farm to the Atlantic 
and Gulf Railroad bridge, across the Little Ogeechee, a distance of 
seven miles. His force comprised 2,700 men, making the total num- 
ber of troops in the intrenchments 8,450, the greater part of whom 
were detailed men, reserves, militia, and boys, many of whom had 
never been tried in active service. 

The eastern or water approaches to Savannah had been long before 
this secured by strong fortifications. Sunken cribs had been thrown 
across both channels of the Savannah River, these being protected 
by the guns of Fort Jackson and of Batteries Lawton and Lee, and 
the Naval Battery grouped about and supporting Fort Jackson. A 
battery on Gibson's Point, another at Turner's Rocks, Fort Bartow 
at Causton's Bluff, and a batteiy at Thunderbolt, covered the sec- 
ondary system of water approaches to the Savannah River, and from 
Warsaw Sound. Batteries at Beaulieu and Rose Dhu, defended 
Vernon River and the Little Ogeechee, and Fort McAllister of heroic 
memories blockaded the Great Ogeechee River. An interior line of 
heavy fortifications was drawn about the city, beginning with Fort 
Boggs, and continuing with Fort Brown, near the Cathedral Ceme- 
tery; another strong work near the crossing of Dale Avenue and 
Water's Road and thence westward in a series of demi-lanes to high 
land of Battery Park, commanding the Springfield Valley. These 
fortifications were connected in some cases by curtains and infantrj' 
trenches. Their armament was in place, their magazines constructed 
and well supplied with ammunition, and were in every regard ready 
for the immediate occupation by troops. But during the movement 
of Sherman's Army, no attempt was made by the enemy against 
any of these works, except the harmless shelling of Rose Dhu Battery 
from Green Island, December Ifyth, intended no doubt to call atten- 
tion to the probability of an attack by water, and to prevent the 
withdrawal of the force from the defences in this direc- 
tion to those in front of the enemy. The capture of Fort McAllister 
was a necessary part of Sherman's scheme of communication with 
the Federal naval force along the coast, especially, at Port Royal, 
a scheme which had signally failed in every other direction, and 
which succeeded at Fort McAllister, because ^hat redoubtable 

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stronghold was taken in reverse by a land assault of nine regiments, 
comprising between 3,500 and 4,000 men against an enfeebled garri- 
son of 150 effectives. 

Fort McAllister was captured on the 13th of December, thus giv- 
ing the enemy unobstructed communication to the sea by the Great 
Ogeechee River, and a depot of supplies was at once established at 
King's Landing immediately in rear of the right of Shennau's Army. 
As soon as the enemy took position, the Confederate guns were 
opened upon them and were answered. Sharpshooting was active 
along the lines. An effort made by the enemy to force Shaw's Dam 
on December 10th and again repeatedly tried on the following day, 
was repulsed and the Federal batteiy silenced. Heavy artillery firing 
occurred at other points, and an attempt to carry Fort Hardeman on 
the right of the Confederate lines was easily repulsed; but the ene- 
my during the night, succeeded in transferring two companies, and 
the following day six other companies of infanti-y to Argyle Island 
on the Savannah River. These were followed by two regiments oc- 
cupying the western end of Hutchinson's Island, and the enemy's 
cavali-y made vigorous but useless efforts on the upper rice fields of 
the Savannah River on the Carolina side, to cut the Confederate line 
of communication with Hardeeville. 

In the meantime the conflict along the intrenchments west of 
the city was intensified, and it had become evident that the line of 
troops defending them was too thin to sustain heavy assaults, and 
that the supply of provisions and of ordnance was inadequate for 
resisting a prolonged siege, while the avenues of retreat into Caro- 
lina was already assailed by Sherman's troops, and could all be read- 
ily attacked by Foster's Army from Fort Royal, by way of Bluffton. 
In fact the latter movement was arranged by Sherman, M'ho 
went in person to Port Royal for the purpose. It was in his ab- 
sence on this mission that Savannah was evacuated on the night of 
December 21st, 18G4. 

Perhaps no such military movement has ever been more strictly 
justified or more skillfully executed. Sherman had demanded "the 
surrender of the city of Savannah, and its dependent forts," on the 
17th of December. The demand was promptly refused. General 
Hardee categorically rebutting cvei-y reason adduced by General 
Sherman for making the demand, Avhile at the time he had not only 
determined upon the evacuation, but the construction of the neces- 
saiy pontoon bridges to cross the three branches of the Savannah 
River, was already begun on the 14th and was then well under way. 

The movement was arranged for the night of the 20th, and the 
armament of the "dependent forts" was disabled or destroyed, and 
the garrisons dispatched across to the Carolina shore. All that day 
the fire from the intrenchments was increased, but at 8 o'clock at 
night, Wright's Division moved from the right, at 10 o'clock Mc- 
Laws' Division from the center, at 11 o'clock Smith's Division from 
the left, the skirmishei's of each division withdrawing quickly after. 
But occasional firing was kept up to conceal the movement. The 
guns were spiked and ammunition was destroyed, as far as this 
could be done without drawing the attention of the enemy. But the 
movement was accomplished, silently, and with little confusion. The 
pontoon bridges were covered with rice straw to muffle the passage 
of the artillery and baggage wagons. Of all the equipment of 
forty-nine guns, a single battery wagon was lost from the bridges, 
and the horses of this were saved. 

The march on the bridges and across the islands, between which 
they were laid, was unnoticed by the enemy near at hand on Hutch- 
inson's Island, and next day the army was safe at Hijrdeeville. Aft- 
er the bridges had been passed, the rice flats or scows on which they 
were laid, were sunk and sent adrift. 

The Federal losses during Sherman's march from Atlanta to the 
coast, including those incurred in the efforts to take possession of the 
Savannah and Charleston Railroad, have been estimated at 2,800 men 
killed, Avonnded, and missing. Computed in the same manner, the 
Confederate loss will not exceed 1,500. During the siege the losses 
of the Confederates were comparatively few, due to the admirable 
protection of the earthworks along the western front. Among those 
who fell there was Major Cook of the Athens Battalion, whose gal- 
lantry had been distinguished. "Few desertions," says Colonel O. 



C. Jones, who was himself present on the scene, "occurred, when 
"the city was evacuated; and although the gan-ison was composed in 
"no small degree of local troops and reserves, whose families, homes 
"and property were there, the men as a rule, tearfully, and yet 
"bravely marched in silence through the city, turning their backs 
"upon all the heart holds most dear, in response to the stern neces- 
"sities of the occasion, and in obedience to the claims of a country, 
"sorely beleaguered, but devotedly loved." 

So ended the boasted "March to the Sea," and so with an adroit- 
ness unsurpassed in military history. General Hardee led his army 
unobstructed and intact into South Carolina, from under tlie very 
muzzles of the guns of an army in strength seven times his own, and 
threatened in the rear by a second army at least equal to his oAvn. 



SAVANNAH. 

By G. A. Gregory. 



The history of Savannah began with the settlement of Geor- 
gia in 1733. In that year Oglethorpe lauded on Yamacraw bluff and 
founded the youngest of the original thirteen colonies. There is 
scarcely a more romantic chapter in history than that which deals 
with the little colony planted upon the banks of the Savannah. Its 
early existence was one of privation and hardship. The difficulties 
and sufferings of the colonists were such that it seem marvelous 
that they did not abandon their new home, but they were a hardy 
people, and, stioiggling against the vicissitudes of a pioneer life, the 
erratic impulses of savage neighbors, and weighted with all the de- 
pressing influences of isolation, a permanent establishment was 
maintained. The philosophy of its foundation and fortunes belongs 
to the examples and facts of history. 

The country South and Southwest, between the Savannah River 
and Florida, was, prior to 1733, a wilderness held by Indians, and 
claimed! both by England and Spain. To secure it, Oglethorpe ob- 
tained from George II. "a grant for twenty-one years in trust for the 
poor," -of the counti-y between the Savannah and Altamaha 
Rivers, and westward to the Pacific Ocean. Oglethorpe's plan was 
to occupy the disputed territory by providing in it an asylum for the 
poor of England, and the Protestants of all nations, where former 
poverty would be no reproach, and where all might worship God 
without fear of persecution. The grant from England was the 
great instniment which lay at the political foundation of Georgia. 
Its provisions were commensurate with its design; and its privileges 
were as ample as the benevolence which sxiggested it. It gave to 
those over whom it stretched its fostering care the privileges of free- 
boi'n Britons; the privileges of English law, and, with one exception, 
the privileges of religious liberty. None but those who would take 
the oath of transubstantiation could become colonists. 

Oglethorpe's first visit was in 1732, when he selected the site 
for the town alid concluded a treaty with Tomo-Chi-Chi. chief of the 
Indian nation occupying the country. February 1, 1733, he landed 
with one himdred and fourteen colonists. Four tents were pitched 
on the bluff overlooking the river, one for each tlthiug, the munici- 
pal divisions into which the colonists had already been divided. This 
was the fiist occupation of Georgia and the birth of Savannah. The 
little settlement in time grew to the proportions of a town and was 
laid off with open squares and sti'eets crossing each other at right 
angles. The land was divided, under a strict agrarian law, into two 
hundred and forty freeholds. The town land covered twenty-four 
square miles. Every forty houses (.the houses being located on 



tracts of land exactly tlie same size) made a ward. Each ward had 
a constable, and under him were fonr tithing men. Every ten 
ed^'S'^wi? "" titling; and to each tithing was a square mile* divS 
farm o'f Sy-flvfacres"^.'"" '"^''^'^^'^ '' *^^ ^*^^^^=" "^'^ - 'o^' o^ 
_ Not long after the colony was founded the religious persecutions 
in Germany began. The Salzburgers were driven out and they 
sought new homes in Georgia. Oglethorpe and his people generous 
ly welcomed the little band of Protestants who siught the"? nro 
tection and their freedom of conscience. A settlement twenty miles 
west of bayannah on tlie banks of the river was assigned t6 them 
and they called it Ebenezer in commemoration of their final deliv' 
erance from their enemies. The exile of the Salzburgers is one of 
the most stirring incidents of the ciyil and religious history of Ger 




The Confederate Monun-.ent. 

The Confederate Sol- 
diers' monument in the 
parade ground was 
erected by the Ladies' 
Memorial Association 
to the memory of the 
Confederate dead. The 
monument stands upon 
a raised terrace, and is 
capped by a bronze sta- 
tute of a Confederate 
soldier at "parade rest." 
On the die of the monu- 
ment is the dedication: 

•'Come from the four winds, 

O breath, 
And breathe upon these slaia 

that they may live." 



many, and the little settlement at Ebenezer is to-day one of the 
most revered places among the Lutherans of this country. 

Two years later John and Chai'Ies Wesley arrived, and the 
founder of :Methodism preached his first sermon in America in Sa- 
vannah. The mission of tlie Wesleys proyed, howeyer. unfortunate 
and brief. Their religious zeal outran discretion and they were 
soon embroiled in conflicts with the authorities and the people, Avhom 
they did not unclerstand. Both returned to England before they 
had been in America tAvo years. The next year George Whitefiel'd 
arrived, and having more tact than the Wesleys. and, from his par- 
entage and early association®, being better fitted to co]ie with the 
rude minds of tlie colonists, he succeeded Ayhere they failed, and laid 
in, Savannali tlio foundation of his subsequent reputation. His great 
work was the founding of the Bethesda Oi-phan House. 



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Hardly had the town been laid out before a colony of Israelites 
arrived. True to their ancient faith, they no sooner landed than 
they founded a synagogue, to which they gave the name Mickva 
Israel . 

At the end of the first decade of its existence, when Oglethorpe 
left America finally for England, Savannah had grown to a village 
of three hundred and fifty houses. The government of Oglethoiije 
had been military, but after his departure it devolved upon the 
tnistees in England. The colony, never very strong, languished un- 
der their chimerical views and injudicious management. Agricul- 
ture did not flourish, commerce was not thought of, silk culture 
which Oglethorpe had tried to establish, failed, the colonists were 
deserting to Carolina and the other American possessions or were re- 
turning home, and at last in 1752, the trustees, in despair, resolved 




The Pulaski Monument. 

Erected in Montgom- 
ery square, in memory 
of Brigadier - General 
Count Casimer Pulaski, 
is the last work of the 
famous Geru)an sculp- 
tor, Launitz. The corner 
stone of the monument 
was laid in Chippewa 
square in 1825, with the 
corner stone of the 
Greene monument, but 
was removed to Mont- 
gt)mery square in 1853. 



on account of their utter inability to support the colony, to make an 
absolute surrender of the charter. The resolution was carried into 
effect, and Georgia became a Royal Province. Under the more lib- 
eral and the wiser protection and patronage of the crown. Savan- 
nah survived and became in time the prospering foster-mother of 
Georgia. 

Among the early excitements of Savannah was the trouble with 
the Spaniards in Florida, which finally culminated in open war. 
Spain, with her wonted arrogance, had firmly bidden the Georgians 
quit their newly established homes; but Spanish bravado did not 
frighten them. Anglo-Georgian and Hispano-Floridian fortified 
against each other; the same Spanish intrigue, which was at work 
among the thousands of negroes in South Carolina, was active among 
the Indians of Georgia. When at last England and Spain went to 



war, Oglethorpe and his colouists played an important part. They 
penetrated to the very walls of St. Augustine, but did not succeed 
in taking it. 

The colonists were naturally an independent people, and the 
"Stamp Act" put the same fever into their blood that stirred the 
pulses of their cousins in Massachusetts. It is curious to note, in 
view of later events, that Savannah sent to the Old Bay State much 
of the powder used in the defense of Bunker Hill. 

Although the last settled of the original thirteen colonies, neither 
Georgia or her chief city were backward in accepting the issues of 
the Revolution. A Georgia schooner was the first commissioned 
American vessel, and made the first capture of the war off Tybee— 




THE GKEENE MOM'JIENT 

ERECTED IN Honor of Gen. Nathaniel Greexe by the Citizens of Savannah 
The Corner Stone was laid by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1825. 

16,000 pounds of powder. Savannah revolted against its royal Gov- 
ernor early in 1776, and imprisoned him; the next year the conven- 
tion which framed the State Constitution met here. Toward the 
close of 1778, the British, after a savagely disputed battle, captured 
the city; a brutal soldieiT shot and bayonetted many citizens in the 
streets and imprisoned others on board the English ships. British 
rule, with all the rigor of military law, was enforced until an evac- 
uation was rendered expedient by tte success of American arms 
elsewhere. 

There is one picture which the memory of Savannah's trials dur- 
ing the Revolution brings to mind— a picture which has in it the 
sparkle of French color, and which is a noble memorial to French 



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gallantry and generosity. In the dull and dreadful days ot 5779, 
when English rule had become all but intolerable, a superb fleet, 
one day in September, anchored off Tyl>ee, and the amazed English 
saw the French colors displayed above twenty ships of the line and 
sixteen frigates, commanded by Count D'Estaing, sent by tlie King 
of France to aid the stiniggling Americans. Five thousand of the 
best soldiers of the French army, united with such as the American 
Government could muster, laid vigorous siege to the town: troops 
were landed and the combined forces attacked the Britisli positions; a 
strong bombardment -\\ as kept up for some time, and an assault was 
made on the town on the 9th of October, but the besiegers were 
finally compelled to withdraw, leaving the city to tlie mercies of the 
enraged English. In this long and brave assault, wliicli lasted near- 
ly two months, the chivalrous Pulaski sealed his devotion to liberty 
with his life on the spot where the Central Railroad passenger depot 
now stands. Neaa- by fell the gallant Jasper, who had repeatedly 
illustrated his valor in the cause of the colonies. The city was evac- 
uated shoa-tly before the close of hostilities. The exiled' citizens re- 
turned, ousted the interlopers, who had acquired the traffic of the 




The Savannah Volunteeh Glakds" Ahmoky at Bcll and Chaui-ton Sthketm 

Near UeSoto Hotel where some of the Sessions of the 

Confederate Veterans will be Held. 

town by protection of the enemy, repaired the damages that war had 
wrought, to resume once more with ardor their pursuits, and to en- 
joy the I'elaxations of peace. 

Savannah was*, in its early history, one of the most patriotic of 
American towns. It not only produced men renowned for bravei-y 
and true chivalric qualities, but the people took every occasion to 
demonstrate their faith in the Union. The new President, Wash- 
ington, was received with joyous enthusiasm. Lafayette was given 
an overwhelming welcome, and, during his visit, he laid the corner- 
stones of two handsome monuments, which are to-day counted among 
the city's treasures— those to Pulaski and General Greene. 

In the Avar between the States Savannah was the key to the Geor- 
gia coast, and it was closely watched by the Federal forces. The 
ordinance of secession was framed in Savannah, and it was here that 
the flag of the Confederate States Avas tirst hoisted in Georgia. The 
IX)rt was closed to commerce from IStll to ],S(;."». The most important 
events of the war occurring in the vicinity were the capture of Fort 
Pnlaski, April 10, ISC.L'. and the reduction of Fort McAllister, Decem- 
ber 12, 1864. Pulaski, situated so as to command both channels of 



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the entrauce-Avay fniui the sea. had b<^en built with jjreat care, aud 
it was believed to be iinpref^nable, but ritted cannon, then a novelty 
in warfare, and tlie superior resources of the Federal forces, accom- 
plished its surrender iu twenty-seven hours. After the fall of Pu- 
laski thei-e were numerous encounters on land and sea, but there 
was no general engagement of the hostile armies until Sherman in- 
vested the city. December 11, 1864, after his famous "March to the 
Sea," with 60,0(X) infantry, 6,(X)0 cavaliy. and numerous batteries of 
siege guns. Along the const was a fleet of irouclads. and other war 
vessels, awaiting the establishnitiit of communication with Sher- 
man's forces to co-operate witli him in the siege. Opposed to these 
General Harr.ee had. within the city and its defenses, 10,000 men. 
Fort McAllister had Avitlistood three attempts to silence it and it had 
to be taken. Sherman cautiously enveloped the defenses of the city 
so as to completely isolate the fort, and then sent nine regiments to 
take it. The fort was held by a garrison of 150 men. It was cap- 
tured after a desperate fight aud through the superiority of over- 
whelming forces. The capture of McAllister was the conquest of 
Savannah. The city was evacuated December 20, 18(54, and was 
formally surrendered the next day. Sherman's regime, although 




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brief, was rigorous in the extreme. Shortly after the fall of the 
city Lee and Johnston surrendered, and the war ended. Savannah's 
progress since then has not been less remarkable than that of the 
whole State. 

Savannah has a population of over 65,000. It covers an area of 
4,000 acres, and has a property valuation of S45,000,000, and a com- 
merce of .'};150,0<X).00. The city lias 110 miles of streets, 65 acres of 
public parks, 25 miles of street railway, and 5 miles of Avharves. 
Geographically it is at the head of ship navigation on the Savannah 
River, 18 miles from the ocean, on a plateau 50 feet above the level 
of the sea. It is in 32 degrees and some minutes North latitude and 
is near the isothermal line of 70 degrees temperature which marks 
the northern limit of the tropics. The average temperature is 06 de- 
grees, approximating that of Bermuda, Gibraltar, Sixain; Palermo, 
Sicily; Shanghai, China and Sydney, Australia. 

It has held a prominent place among the seaport cities of Amer^ 
ica on account of its commercial importance, becanse of its being 



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the chief naval stores port of the world, and tlie second largest cot- 
ton port of America. It is the headquarters of five lines of ocean 
steamships, four lines of river steamers, and of the two great railway 
systems of the South— the Central and Plant Systems— and is on two 
trunk lines North and South. It is delightfully situated as a resi- 
dence town. No other American city has such wealth of foliage, 
such charming seclusion and such sylvan perfection, so united with 
all the convenience and compactness of a great commercial city. Its 
parks and squares are adorned with statues, fountains and mounds, 
gigantic oaks and magnolias, with here and there catalpas and ba- 
nana trees. Among the tlowers the most beautiful are the rose and 
the camelia japonica, which bloom luxuriantly in mid-winter in the 
open air. 

But its natural beauty is not all that Savannah boasts. Its archi- 
tecture is varied and striking; much of it in the quaint fashion of 
by-gone days, but with those characteristics that the art of the pres- 
ent day is eager to counterfeit. It is rich in historic memories; its 





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The New savannah Post Office and Federal Court Building, at Bull, President and 
YORK Streets- Court House Square. 

schools are unsurpassed; its society is cultured; art is patronized, 
and all the influences exist which make the city attractive. 

All classes of society are found as in other States, and the qiies- 
tion of nativity, antecedents and political or religious views create 
as few distinctions as can probably be found in any community in 
the world. The stranger is welcomed and the new-comer finds 
friendly neighbors around him. 

The city is nearly square, and most of the streets are broad and 
run at right angles with each other. The plan of the city proper was 
designed by Oglethorpe, and once commenced it was adhered to for 
its regularity, beauty, and comfort. All of the streets in the city are 
named, and the lanes take the name of the street north of them.^ The 
plan of the outskirts differs materially from that of the city proper. 
Bay street is the great commercial tlioroughfare. and is lined with 
mercantile houses, banks and business offices. The Custom House, the 
City Exchange, Post-Office, and the Cotton Exchange are on "The 
Bay." Congress and Broughton are the principal retail business 



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streets. Bull street is the great promenade, and extends from the 
City Exchange, overlooking the river, to the park, and beyond to 
the southern limits and the White Bluff shell road. It received its 
name from Cblonel William Bull, who assisted Oglethorpe in laying 
out the city. The street passes through five squares, in which are 
the Greene, Gordon, Jasper, and Pulaski Monuments, and leads to 
the main entrance of the park. It is the most picturesque street in 
the city. Upon it are some of Savannah's handsomest residences 
and gardens, and most imposing public buildings. Liberty and Ogle- 
thorpe avenue streets, the latter the oiiginal southern limit of the 
city, with their three and four rows of magnificent oaks interlacing 
their foliage and forming almost an arched avenue on either side 
of a broad grass plat, are two of the finest residence streets. 

Forsytb Park. 

Almost in the heart of the city, was laid off in 3853. Its plan 
is similar to that of the Grand Park in the City of Mexico. The park 
proper contains ten acres with an addition of twenty acres, used by 




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the military as a parade ground. The main entrance is from Bull 
street by a broad avenue guarded by sphinxes. In the center of the 
park is a magnificent fountain (designed from the model which was 
awarded the prize in the first International Exhibition in London in 
1844. and similar to the grand fountain in the Place de la Concorde in 
Paris. Radiating from the fountain in all directions are broad, 
winding walks. The park is filled with trees, and their foliage is 
one of its chief charms. The walks are bordered with lawns, and 
clumps of roses, coleas, cacti and ivy;,and climbing plants grow lux- 
uriantly among the native pines. In the center of the parade 
ground, or park extension, stands the Confed';?rate monument. 



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The Telfair Academy of Arts and ScienceN 

Is situated on the western side of St. James Square, about one 
block west of the new Postoffice building. This institution is at 
present more properly a gallery of paintings and sculpture, the only 
one of the kind in the South. Although not so extensive as others 
in the great cities of the North, this beautiful gallery is not surpassed 
by any of them in the quality of its exhibition of art. 

The buildings consist in part of the mansion of the Telfair fami- 
ly, distinguished in the historj- of Georgia, and rest on the site oc- 
cupied by the residence of Sir James Wright, Royal Governor of 
Georgia at the outbreak of the Revolution, in Avhich he was impris- 
oned after his capture by Major Joseph Habersham and his patriotic 
associates. 




Veterans, wearing their badges, and friends accompanying them, 
will be admitted free to the Academy during the days of the Reunion, 
from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. 

llodsTson Hall. 

Situated at the corner of Gaston and Wbitaker streets, opposite 
the northwestern corner of Forsyth Park, is the home of "The 
(Jeorgia Historical Society," was erected atid presented to the society 
ill memory of her husband, who was a devoted member and dis- 
tinguished as a scholar, especially in Oiiental and Indian languages. 




Hodgson Hall. Gkohgia Histouual Societv. 

The membership of this society number nearly 600. Its library 
contains more than 22,400 volumes and 4,000 pamphlets, and a large 
collection of portraits, charts, and manuscripts, the latter relating 
chiefly to the colonial and revolutionary period. 

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Chatbaiii Academy. 

This extensive stinicture faces oa Oglethorpe avenue, between 
Bull and Drayton streets, is the High School in the System of Pub- 
lic Education in Chatham County. It affwds accommodation for 7.50 
scholars, male and female. 

The trustees, who control this property, were incoi-porated iu 
1788, and the building was erected in 1813. 

The public school houses of Savannah are eleven in number, and 
in some instances are handsome structures. The total attend- 
ance of scholars is 5,598. Of these, 3,635 are whites and 1,903 col- 
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The Chatham academy 



Colonial Park. 



Originally known as "The Old Cemetery," lies in the northwest- 
ern angle of Oglethorpe avenue, and Abercorn street. In colonial 
times it was the cemetery attached to the parish of Christ Church, 
of which John Wesley and Whitefield were rectors. A few years 
since, it was converted into a public park, but the menfovials of the 
dead have been carefully preserved. It contains the ashes of many 
distinguished dead, famous in national, as well as state history. 
Among these General Nathaniel Greene, (whose precise place of bu- 
rial is not now known), James Habersham, General Lachlau Mcin- 
tosh, and others. 

Commerce of the Port of Savannah- 
Comparative statement of the value of Domestic Exports for 
year ending June 30, 1898, from the principal seaports of the United 
States: 

1. New York .i;4:{7.426,037 

2. Baltimore 118.782,172 

3. Boston Il(i.l29,227 

4 . New Orleans 110,951,044 

5. Galveston 67,931,962 

6. Philadelphia .^t).l8(.."^n9 

7. San Francisco 40,709.851 

8. Newport News 30.163.990 

9. Savannah 28,937,614 



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10. Port Townseud 17,882,355 

11. Norfolk 13,978,478 

12. Portland, Oiff 13.874,148 

13. Charleston 11,440,130 

14. Brunswick 10,602,410 

15. Wilmington. X . C 9,701,606 

16. Mobile 9,579,554 

17. Pensacola 8,231,429 

Exports of principal articles from Savannah for year ending, 

June 30, 1898. 




i llr. t ..i I (I.N KACHAXGK. 

^^f Sea island cotton. 15,389 bales, 5,995,724 pounds ...$ 910,663 
t Upland cotton, 718.675 bales, 357,834,468 pounds . 21,042.392 

Cotton seed, 289.361 pounds 2.(M0 

Phosphate rock, 70,540 tons 703.360 

Rosin, 1,432,368 barrels 2,146.889 

tSpirits of turpentine. 13.312.176 gallons 3,826,212 

Lumber and staves, 7,403 M feet 85,222 

Staves 22,092 

All other articles 198,744 

Total value of exports .$28,937,614 

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♦Savannah was the third cotton port of the United States with 
New Orleans first, Galveston, second. 

tSavannah is the lirst naval stores port of the world, handling 
about three-fourths of the entire naval stores production. During 
the year 1897-1898 she handled 311,197 casks spirits of turpentine, 
out of a total production of 401,480 casks, which was 246,030 casks 
more than the port handling the next largest quantity; and 1,127,130 
barrels of rosin, out of a total production of 1,760,800 barrels, being 
876,978 barrels more than the port hancHing the next largest quan- 
tity. 

Steamships carrying cotton from Savannah to foreign countries 
for year ending, June 30, 1898, 107; tonnage, 185,512, carrying 715.000 
bales . 




r.iTY Halt,. 



Total entered. 



Cleared for foreign ports 

Cleared for ports of the United States. 



Total cleured. 



No. of 
No. Tons. Crew. 



Entered from foreign ports , 305 

Entered from ports of the United States 442 



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344 
3S6 



780 



319,355 
734,716 



1,054.072 



376, 24R 
66S,946 



1,045,194 



5,395 
18,635 



24,030 



6,192 
17,680 



23,782 



"Vessels of all classes entered and cleared at the Custom House of 
Savannah, for year ending, June 30, 1898. 

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Facts About Savannah. 

The first steamship to cross the Atlantic sailed from Savannah 
in 1819. 

The first cotton grown in Georgia was sliippod from Savannah 
in 1788. 

Savannah has annual shipments of over 1,000,000 packages of 
fruits, of 500,000 packages of vegetables, and over 1,000,000 water- 
melons . 

Savannah has an ocean commerce of over $150,000,000. 

Savannah has never had a bank failure. 

Savannah has more miles of electric railway than any city of its 
size in the world. 

Savannah is the healthiest city in the South and is surpassed by 
few in the world. 

Savannah has an annual retail trade of $35,000,000. 
Savannah has the finest hotel in the South outside of St. Augus- 
tine and Tampa. 

Savannah has the finest artesian water supply in the South— a 
daily supply of 12,000,000 gallons, or nearly 200 gallons to every man, 
woman and child. 



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Globe Shoe Co 



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I 22 BroTighton, "West. 
J STRICTLY ONE PRICE. 

I RELIABLE SHOES 

I REASONABLE PRICES. 

I Glo1)e Shoe Co, 

I 23 Broughton, West. 



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WILSON'S 
Photo Studio, 

41 BULL STREET. 

(OPPOSITE SCREVEN HOUSE.) 

Is Headquarters for the Con- 
federate Reunion Photos, 
Etc. 

Mr. M. Edw. Wilson, the pro- 
prietor, has been appointed 
official photographer to 
the Reunion. 

FOR ■. 

Photographs, Crayons, Etc. 

You should go there. 

THE BEST. ^^ 

Jtjn THE CHEAPEST. 



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^ Restaurant and Cafe .... 




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ESTABLISHED 1877. 



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J. J. SULLIVAN, 



PROPRIETOR. 



30 BRYAN STREET, EAST. 




TELEPHONE 545. 



Savannah, Ga 





©ur 
Sletninder 



. . . OF . . . 

Hall guits 

is in keeping with your reunion. 

Tiiey are good, true and tried, 

only one difference, they are 

the new kind. Latest touches 

ot fashion — but quality is like 



■the old, true Coufed'. 



We fit you from head to foot. 
Call and see us. 

127 CONGRESS ST., WEST, 
Between Whitaker and Barnard Streets. 



B. B. NEAL, President. F. P. MILLARD, Vice- Pies. HENRY BLUN, Jr., Sec. & Treas. 



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112-114: Bay St.. West, 
SAVAKNAM, ©A. 




SASH, DOORS and BLINDS, 

BUILDERS' HARDWARE, 

Paints, Oils and Varnishes, 

BRUSHES, 

Plate and Ornamental Glass. 



LIME; 

PORTLAND AND ROSENDALE CEMENTS. 

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 

DEALERS IN 

ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. 



REPAIRS ON ALL KINDS 

OF 
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. 



LESTER W. WALKER & CO., 

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS, 

^O IDI^^^-^TOlSr STREET, 
TELEPHONE 643. SAVANNAH, GA. 



FOR SALE BY 

C. H DORSETT, 



f Vacant Lots, 

% Residences, 

t Farms, 

J Business Sites, 

1 Stores, 

If you want a home, and you don't think you have money enough, tell me 
how you stand, and 1 will arrange for the balance. 



22 Coxig-ress, "'^TT'est. 



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LEE ROY MYERS a CD. 

HUMBOLDT 
CIGARS 

AS GQQD AS CURRENCY 



THE SAVANNAH THEATRE, ^'""t.Cer'^^'^' 

Notable Attractions this Week. 




Veterans and All Visitors to the City, go to the Theatre 

FOR AN ENJOYABLE EVENING'S AMUSEMENT. 
Bull and McDonough sts., Fronting Chippewa Square. 



ITS a satisf^^ing; tilings wlien you come into 
this store to feel tliat you liave before yciu 
a stock of Slioes comprising; all tlie best 
tbin<>;s of tbe season"-a stock so ^reat in its 
scope tbat notliing: is wanting;. 

And it is put bere by its satisfied customers. 









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If you want a satisfying thing-, get a pair of our Hanan $5.00 
Shoes, Monmouths or that very mannish Natura Shoe. 

We guarantee satisfaction and we mean by satisfaction whatever 
you mean 




fbOTCOV£If£:/fS Tom^MANK/ND. 



aFas. M/Dixon %^ Co 



AGENTS FOR THE 

HAZARD 
GUN POWDER CO. 

■«&S eee*- 

. .. AGENTS FOR . . . 

DuPont's Smokeless 
Powder. 

HERCULES POWDER CO. 



WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 

Groceries, 
Mag, €rain and 
S^rovisions. 



p. O. BOX 364. 






Warehouse, No. 3. Plant System Depot, 
Wheaton Street 



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SAVANNAH, GA. 



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a^-aayoMt^i^aaiseiririiaio!: 



A Man's Store, where 
Women like to Shop. 



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So remarked one of Savannah's Ladies 
the other day. She was right. Hun- 
dreds of the fair sex visit this Store be- 
cause they can find a hne of goods and 
at prices which interests them. 

You are cordially invited to call and 
make comparisons. 



Respectfully Yours, 
ALWAYS READY TO PLEA5E, 

SIQ. GARDNER, t 
Special Inducements 



donfedepate. '.Veteran^ 



FOR 10 DAYS ONLY. 

MARK APPLE 

has the best line in Savannah of 
Country Buggies. Also good, 
strong Farm, Jersey and Turpen- 
tine Wagons, Harne.-s, Whips, 
Lap Robes, etc. 

AGENT OF THE niLBUI^N 
and hLORENCE WAGONS. 

All vehicles guarantee<i for one 
year, and vill be repHired free of 
charge, except when breakage is 
caused l)y runaway. 
Make us your headquarters when in the 
city. You aie welcome. 

riARK APPLE, 

220 Broughton St , W 

Plione Ko. ztS. 



J--LL1A1JAJJ_L\_L 

John G.Butler 



DEALER IN 



RAINTS 



OILS. 



Georgia ^"^ Alabama Lime, 
Plaster, Cement, Etc. 



RA^IIvROAD AXD 



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"'^ MILI^ SUPPLIES. 

SASH, BLINDS AND DOORS, 

140 Congress and 139 St. Julian Sts. 
SAVANNAH, GA. 

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THE LIQUOR QUESTION. 

IT SHOULD BE GOOD 

AND ABSOLUTELY PURE GET IT OF 

HENRY SOLOMON & SON, 

WHOLESALE LIQUOR AND WINE MERCHANTS, 

Corner Bay &, Jefferson Streets, SAVANNAH, GA. 
PURE AND RELIABLE, IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT YOUR NECESSITIES, 

CONIDA'S 

137-139 BULL STREET. - - - SAVANNAH, GA. 

A CAFE, newly opaned, where everything is clean, bright and 

attractive. 
A SODA FOUNTAIN, long the acknowledged favorite of the 

city. 
CONFECTIONERIES, as good as the very best. 

C. E. STULTS & CO., 

^ 'Wholesale ICtiquors, Cigars, 
^P tobaccos, Ciders, 6ltc. 

9 BAY STREET, VS^EST, 

-S AVANNAH, GA. 

THOMAS WEST & CO., 

FINE CHINA, 

GLASSWARE & NOVELT/ES, 
HOUSE FuttjrMSHijrct ctoons, 

No. M BROUCHTON ST., WEST, 

'^•'uB^JcOV GLASS. ^y- Savannah, Qa. 



CUSTOM HOUSE SHADES, 

BAY LANE AND BULL STREET, 

Fine Wines, liquors and £!igars. 

TERRAPIN SOUP EVERY THURSDAY. 

ALLEY & KELLY, Proprietors. 
^j^*nRt^:\^ ir^jri^JEir cojup^jti^j 

- A^^-— -^— gl.nds Mouldmj AND ,,,„,„, 

jl_ ,^_J|&1/J^ iJji^ RailroadSteamboatsMillSupplies 






fcUi/^ ID^ (ij^lM. I IS^^^BLI ViNDOWPLATt AND ART GLASS 

RooH.5healhi[\3 AM> Wall Paper t^ Q^ W ' wipi: BUlLDEnS HARDWARE. 

*^I13B HR'lllBl^^^f'^ ■WHITE PINE GOODS MY 

JOHN LYONS 8z CO., 

UEALKKS IN 

Provisions, Familf Groceries, Fine Liquors, 
Wines, Porter, Ale, Fancy Articles, Etc. 

LYONS' BLOCK, 

Corner Broughton and Whitaker Streets, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA^ 



ONLY 



ANHEUSER BUSC H BEER. 
THEVERY BEST WHISKEY 



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O'KEEFE'S, 

:b:e^otjc3-h:to3^ Sc nDP^^-iTTonsr sts. 

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^ THOMAS F. GLEASON & CO., ( 

M2 BRYAN ST., EAST. | 

Livery and Boarding Stables. \ 

Brightest, Best Ventilated and Cleanest Stable in the city. If ^ 
you have a horse to board, come and see us. S. 

PALACE CIGAR STORE, 

UNDER PULASKI HOUSE. 

IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC 

. . . AT . . . 



^^is^Ty, L. BY03s:'«.:k^ 






An Interesting 
Store. 

To our Confederate Friends : 

Now doing business at its old 
stand, the oldest Clothing Establish- 
ment in the city of Savannah and 
perhaps the oldest in the State. We 
are particularly anxious for each and 
every one of you to visit us, whether 
you wish to buy or not; simply for 
old time sake we want to see you. 
Make our st-ore your headquarters; 
you are welcome. Familiar is the 
name 

FALK, 

CONGRESS and WHITAKER STS. 

Reliable 

Clothing at Lowest 

Prices. 


ABBO 

Medical and ^ui'gical Institute, 

114 Liberty Street, West. 

Expert Specialists in all 
Chronic Diseases. 


BEST EQUIPPED INSTITUTION IN THE SOUTH, 

PRIVATE HOSPITAL 

(for the treatment of all) 

Diseases of Women. 

J. D. PR05SER, M. D., 

nedical Director. 


CREDKKXI AI^S : 

Graduates Medical College of Indiana, In- 
dianapolis; University of California; Jeffer- 
son Medical College, Philadelphia; Tuft's 
Medical College, Boston; Homeopathic Hos- 
pital, College, Cleveland, 0.; The New York 
Post-Graduate Medical School; the Philadel- 
phia Polyclinic, Etc., Etc. Registered by ex- 
amination before the State Board of Medical 
Examiners of Georgia. 



H. H. HULL. F. S. LATHROP. 

Hull ^ Jkathrop, 

jBankers and Insurance Agents. 

SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA. 

If It's to Eat, to Drink or to Smoke ... | 

DIERKS HAS IT. I 



Mr. A. J. Dierks' new place, at the corner of Jones and Whitaker 
Streets, is one of the neatest, cleanest, busiest Grocery Stores in Savannah. 
The stock is always full and complete. Attached to the store, but not 
directly connected with it, is a Bar, in which the Best Imported and 
Domestic Liquors are served. Visitors to the city will be cordially wel- 
comed. 



B0JP eieMSMSMa SiSMMSMMS 5MMM1EM0I 3M 5MSM1MSJS) aSMSJ^^ 

IN THESE MODERN DAYS . . . 

Fine Groceries are packed as carefully as silks or jewels, 
with a view to making them keep. 

We Handle Fine Groceries , . . 

Hundreds of articles, all the best money can buy, that can 
be carried a thousand miles without breakage or deteriora- 
tion. The most up-to-date grocery store in Savannah. 

C. A. MUNSTER, Corner Duffy and Drayton Sts. 

BYTHEVS^OOD'S 



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S 
OPEN ALL 

"-^HOURS. • • • • • 

IN SEASON. 



. [Restaurant 

Game. Fish, Oysters "^ ^'^^"-"^- ^^ 



TRY A REGULAR MEAL, 

Nos 104 St. Julian St., and 101 Bryan St.. West. SAVANNAH. GA. 



Really Good 
.Mj erchandise. 

13 & 15 Broughton St., West. 

Qustave 
Eckstein & Co. 

Silks, Dress Goods, 
Linens, Hosiery, 
Kid Gloves, Laces, 

A I wa ys at the Lowest Prices. 



Ladies' Suits, Jackets, Capes 
and Fur Collarettes. 



J. S. COLLINS. Wm. L. GRAYSON. 



Collins, 

Grayson & Co. 

Jobbers and 
Wholesale Dealers in 

FRUITS, 

VEGETABLES 

""" PRODUCE 



Potatoes, Onions, Cabbages, 
Apples, Oranges Lemons, 
Poultry and Eggs. 

121 & 123 Bay St., West, and 4 Barnard St., 

SAVANNAH, QA. 
ESTABLISHED 1870. Telephone 244, 



A. B. HULL. 



JOHN H. HUNTER 



A. B. HULL & CO., 

Wholesale ^ Grain ^ ancf^ Groceries, 

FLOUR, HAY, RICE and PROVISIONS. 



P. O BOX 96. 



Office and Store, New Street, Cor. West Broad, 
Rear Old Offices Central of Ga. Ry. Co. 



1 

Geo W. r.edeman. Irvin B. Tiedetran. 


Geo. 


W. Tiedeman & Bro. 


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WHOLESALE 
GROCERS, 


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J ROURKE'S IRON WORKS, 

iij Iron and Brass Founders, Machinists, 
Blacksmiths and Boilermakers. 

t?^l steam Engines and Boiler Injectors, Steam and Water 
Fittings, Steam Pumps, Etc. 

mahiite work a specialty. 

G. FANTINI, 

Bine iVlicrchant tailoring. 

COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF^.«.v«.v«.v». 

48 Bull Street. ■-•»-.- SAVANNAH, &A. 

Kehoe's Iron Works, 

|ron and ^radd Jounderd, ^achini^ti, 
Plackdmith* and Ipoilcrmaker*, 

STEAM AND WATER FITTINGS, Every Description. 
PIPE AND BOILER TUBES. 



D'STllEK' 
flliPJS 

ouiriis. 




MCHIitEIlYiil 
CASIIHSS 
cf ill kind: 

IVEIYDAY, 



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Special attention to Repair "Work. Estimates cheerfully furnished. 
SAVANNAH, GA. 



HASLAM &^ HARNEY 



N» TAIIOHS. 



Latest 
Styles 
and the 







Proper 
Thing 



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Imported Woolens Cassimeres, Vicunas, Oxfords and 
Fancy Vestings. Orders filled on short notice. 

Bull and Oglethorpe Ave., Savannah, Ga. 

Anheuser - BU&CH 

BREWING ASSOCIATION, 

FAUST, BUDWEISEH, BLACK AND TAN, 
PREMIUM FALE. 

LARGEST BREVV^ERY IN THE WORLD. 

Savannah Agency, Bay and Lincoln Sts. 

=-z^^TELEPHONE 426.- 



STERNBERG & CO 



- — **^ 



ESTABLISHED IN 1872, 




We carry the largest and most select line in Diamonds, 
Watches, Jewelry and Silverware in this state. 

We guarantee prices lower and assortment larger than any 
legitimate jewelry house in the State of Georgia. 

A cordial invitation extended to all Confederate Veterans. 



STERNBERG & CO., ii7 broughton st., west. 



JOHN LYNCH, 



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-DEALKR IN- 



SJ$ 



STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, 

ALES, WINES, LIQUORS. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. 

Choice Fruits and Vegetables ; Imported and Domestic Table 

Delicacies always on hand. 

Corner Whitaker and Taylor Streets. SAVANNAH. GA. 



Visitors to the City — v0 

If you are looking for sensible, honest wearing- FOOT- 
WEAR, at sensible prices, you are looking for our 
store. We have the most complete stock in 
the city. Give us a call. We show the 
goods, THE PRICES SELL THEM. 




Joseph McKovern, 

20 Broughton 
Street, 
West. 



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THE IMPROVED 

Welsbach 

LIGHT 



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'■a the cost. Better for the eyes, too. Par- 
ticulars, prices and information on 
application. 

MUTUAL GAS LIGHT CO. 

7 and 9 W. Congress Street. 



Feeley's Transfer and Livery Co. 

Passeng^ers and Bag^ga^e Transferred 
to all Parts of the City. 

TEAMS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 
• i^oi isif^B:, • 

Headquarters, DE SOTO HOTEL 

Telephone 130. f^JOHN FEELEY'S SONS. 



GARDNER'S t BAZAAR, 

12 BROUGHTON STREET, EAST 

Canary Birds, Cages Gold Fish and Globes. 

SHELL NOVELTIES, SOUVENIRS. 
BOOKS, STATIONERY, TOYS, GAMES. 

SBr^D OR coi^k: for circulars. 

AGEBJX FOR OFLSCUIG'S NURSKRY. 



ATTENTION, 
VETERANS! 

A visit to the Forest City would 
be incomplete if it did not include 
a visit to the 

Handsomest 
Jewelry Store, 

Where can be found the 
most complete lines of... 

Diamonds, Watches, 
Precious Stones, Jsweiry, 
Gorham Silver, Art Pottery. 

A Beautiful Souvenir Spoon, only $1. 

Hunter & Van Kenren, 

143 BILL STREET. 



•••jTilCKS ••• 

Restaurant 



2! and 23 Congress St , West, 

S4rA\.\AH, GA. 

The hungry wayfarer, wearied with 
much sight-seeing, may find at Hicks*^ 
the ease and comfort that he craves, 
and everything that will serve to please 
and satisfy the wants of his inner man. 

The excellence of Hicks' Cuisine, the 
quality of his service and the general 
up-to-dateness of everything about his 
Restaurant have passed into a proverb. 

" If you want the, best you must 
go to Hicks' to get it." 



...Savannah Trunk Factory,.. 

EDWARD MOVLE. Proprietor. 



Trunks, Bags, 

Suit Cases 
and Telescopes. 



p^LESRoonAND [Q Brju ghton St., East, 




l^wr Leather Goods, 

Savannah, Ga' 



KNIGHT'S PHARMACY, 







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Grove's Chill Tonic 25c 

Syrup of Figs 32c 

Castoria - . 23c 

Paire's Celery Compound .... 73c 

Cobb's Corn Cure •.25c 

Borated Taloum 05c 

Scott's Emulsion 69c 



5 013 701 



591 24^ 



Wine of Card 60c 

Black Draught 12c 

Simmons' Regulator l5c 

King's Discovery 32c 

Soothing Syrup I6c 

Knight's Penetrator 25c 

Sassafras and Sarsaparilla Comp 65c 



ONE PRICE TO EVERYBODY. NO FAKES. hVERYTHINQ GENUINE. 



OGLETHORPE 
AND DRAYTON. 



KNIGHT'S PHARMACY, 



OPEN 
ALL NIGHT. 



-TELEPHONE 539 



le B8SI is M\ lo() doofl lfl[ lie Mmn 



Bass' Ale. 
Guinness' 

Stout. 
Innported 

Wines. 
Imported 

Liquors 



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The Best Whiskey that is served 
over a Savannah bar is here. One 
sip of it will make a perpetual 
friend 

J. F. CROHAN, 

Cor. Bryan and Whitaker Sts, 



R. D. & Wn/I. LATTin/lORE, 



Xjocal .^g-eaa-ts for 



CLEVELAND, DAYTON, 
STERLING BICYCLE5. 

A 5PECIALTy or FINE COOKING 5TCVE5 AND KANOES- 

All kinds of Sporting Goods, Fishing Tackle, Etc. 

121 and 123 CONGRESS ST.. NEAR CITY MARKET. 






ON LY 

THE 

BEST. 



denes' Pharmacy 

BULL and PERRY STS., 
«^ ^SAVANNAH, GA. 

Only half a block from the De Soto Hotel. 



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4* 

ETERANS ! Be sure that it is JONES and you will 
get the Best. -vg) 



Richmond's Business College, 




C. 5. KiCHnOND, Principal. 
Cor. Wliitalier and State Sts., - - SAYAJV^AH, GA. 

99 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C. • Oglethorpe Building, BRUNSWICK, GA. 

THOROUGH, 
PRACTICAL, 

and in every way 






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,„— ^ RELIABLE. 

SHORTHAND, 
TYPEWRITING, 

BOOKKEEPING, 

ENGLISH 
BRANCHES. 

Tills is the only school south that teaches TouCh Typewriting 
and the Continuous Ledger system of Bookkeeping, Mimeographing 
and Court Reporting. 



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HB^mW 



HIS IS THE BEST FEVER MEDICINE made 
on this Earth. There is nothing else as 
good. It will do more in a single day than 
I Quinine can do in 10 days. And it will do its 
work better in this short time than Quinine 
will do in the longer time. 






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OTHER REMEDY FOR FEVER ever 
* >. '^ attained the widespread favor and repu- 
t tation of JOHNSON'S TONIC. This is the 
original "Chill and Fever Tonic." So christen- 
ed in 1884. Numerous imitations have ap- 
peared on the market, and these but ; ttest 
the value of the original. 

AKE ONLY THE ORIGINAL. It is pre- 
pared in a Laboratory exclusively de- 
voted to the manufacture of one medicine. 
The man who does one thing may learn to do 
that one thing perfectly. The man who does 
1000 and one things is not the one to entrust 
with the manufacture of a medicine upon 
which the health and the very life of people 
often depend. Take the original. Just as 
cheap as the worthless imitations of it. 

A. B. GIRARDEAU. 



^ . . . PROGRAM C ONTINUED. . . ^ 

^ ^ ^ 

$ Street Fair and Carnival, | 

^ S FOR THE BENEFIT Ol" € ^ 

I Knights of Pythias Building Fund, | 

t . . OPEiN DA/ AND NIQHT . . f 

^ ^ —IN THE ^ ^ 

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General Admission, 1 Cents. 







The Great, Grand and Glorious 

JAPANESE, JVaOLERS, HINDOS, MAQICIANS, GENUINE 
NATIVES OF THE EAST 

•^xx^RIDlNO CAMELS AND ELBPHANTS.et^ 



. , . Magnificent Merchant's Display . . . 
^ CLITTERINC GALAXY AND CORCEOUSLY COSTUMED 

4 ■ ■ . DANCING GIRLS. . . 






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